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Deep South : a social anthropological study of caste and class / Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner, Mary R. Gardner ; with a new foreword by Isabel Wilkerson.

Author/creator Davis, Allison, 1902-1983 author.
Format Book and Print
EditionEnlarged second edition.
Publication Info Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Copyright Notice ©2022
Descriptionxxvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorGardner, Burleigh B. (Burleigh Bradford), 1902-1985, author.
Other author/creatorGardner, Mary R., author.
Other author/creatorWilkerson, Isabel, writer of foreword.
Other author/creatorWarner, W. Lloyd (William Lloyd), 1898-1970, writer of introduction.
Contents Foreword / Isabel Wilkerson -- Preface -- Part I. Deep south : a social anthropological study of caste and class / W. Lloyd Warner -- The system of color-castes -- The class system of the white caste -- The white upper-class family -- The white middle-class family -- The white lower-class family -- Social cliques in the white society -- Social mobility within the white caste -- The class system fo the colored caste -- Part II. Intimidation of labor -- The plantation in the social setting -- Relation between the caste system and the economic system -- Caste, class, and local government : white power -- Retrospect, 1965 : power and caste -- Afterword, 1986.
Abstract "Deep South was originally published in 1941, documenting in startling detail the nuances, character, and lived realities of racism in a southern town. Allison Davis and his co-authors, Burleigh and Mary Gardner, all went undercover, not revealing their scholarly project or even their association with one another. Their analysis notably revealed the importance of caste and class to both Black and White worldviews, and it anatomized how those are constructed, reified, and reinforced. Deep South is freshly relevant today to those interested in the concept of caste and how it continues to inform the many flavors of American inequality"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2021057700
ISBN9780226817989 paperback
ISBN0226817989 paperback
ISBNelectronic book

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